Sensors remind doctors to wash up

Fighting hospital-born infections starts with
simple hygiene.



While operating rooms are one of the most sterile places in the world – where special procedures and chemicals keep instruments and the doctors and nurses who use them perfectly clean – it’s a small space within a hospital. Other areas of open hallways and waiting rooms are near impossible to keep so perfectly germ-free. So, as

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IBM Research to accelerate discovery with unique lab

The amount of data coming off of sensors and devices challenges researchers and data scientists to determine how to capture it and develop the right tools to analyze it. At IBM Research we are building centers of competency around this big data challenge that will pull together the right sets of collateral to make it easier to do engagements and execute the type of analysis needed for businesses

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Infographic: Predicting and Stopping Infectious Disease

Scientists from IBM Research are collaborating with Johns Hopkins University and University of California, San Francisco to combat illness and infectious diseases in real-time with smarter data tools for public health. The focus is to help contain global outbreaks of dengue fever and malaria by applying
the latest analytic models, computing technology and mathematical skills on an open-source

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Mission Impossible? Not for these IBM scientists

IBM scientist Ioannis Koltsidas’ phone rang on the afternoon of February 4. His manager was on the other line.

“Pack your bags, you and Nikolas [Ioannou] need to fly out to the IBM lab in Almaden and build a half-petabyte storage system out of Flash. It's for a demonstration at a critically important meeting on 28 February.”


“But I don’t think that’s ever been done before,” commented a nervous

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Superconducting at room temperature?

IBM Research scientists adopt techniques from spintronics
to pursue the answer 



Discovered a century ago, superconductivity
promises to drastically improve storage and memory devices, create highly
sensitive sensors, and make energy transmission cheaper. The challenge now is
that the highest temperature superconducting material – demonstrated 25 years
ago by IBM Research scientists – is

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Box Office to Front Office: Winning with Big Data

On Friday, August 10, 2012, the latest installment of the IBM Research Colloquia, "Box Office to Front Office: Winning with Big Data," will convene Bay Area thought leaders and experts in sports and entertainment for a discussion on using Big, Fast Data to engage consumers, develop products and drive revenue.



Join our livestream web event to hear how our esteemed panelists are using Big,

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Green chemistry and the quest for environmentally sustainable plastics

White House recognizes
IBM Research scientist for green chemistry breakthrough.


While exploring metal-free materials and processes for the thin polymeric
films used in microprocessors, IBM researcher Jim Hedrick and Stanford University
professor Dr. Robert Waymouth discovered that these chip development techniques
can also be used in organocatalysis – the use of organic materials instead of

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Sunscreen for Semiconductors

Editor's note: This article is Geraud Dubois, IBM Research's manager of Hybrid Polymeric Materials.



Scientists at IBM Research – Almaden have developed a sunscreen for microprocessors called Post Porosity Plasma Protection. Lathered on a chip, it is the next leap in materials that improve speed and performance.

In the last 20 years, miniaturization has driven the improvement of chip

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Students and Faculty Must Work Across Disciplines to Meet Real-World Challenges

Editor's note: this post is by Jim Spohrer, director, IBM University Programs Worldwide.









Working with academia has been a longtime passion of mine, and for the last three years, my full-time job at IBM. In this role, I am often asked to offer advice, from an industry vantage point, on what needs to change in order to improve university and college education. 



After much

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IBM100: Remembering 1987 Nobel Prize for physics

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Semiconductor expertise for nanomedicine breakthrough

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IBM Fellow Josephine Cheng honored as UCLA's 2010 Alumna of the Year

Guest blog post from Vijay K. Dhir, Dean, UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science:"The UCLA Engineering Alumnus/Alumna of the Year Award, established in 1965, honors the superior achievements of alumni who have brought honor and distinction to the school. The hallmark of each recipient is a sterling record of distinguished career accomplishments, complemented by a history of

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Rethinking the Mobile User Email Experience

You're standing in line or at a conference so you quickly check your email on your smartphone. Basically, you want to know what's new; what needs to be handled immediately; what can be deleted now and what can wait until back in the office. If it's something that you can put off until later, you probably have some trick to remind yourself. Then, you get back to your desk and find yourself

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East Meets West : Analyzing Digital Medical Records to Understand Treatment Efficacy

Eastern and Western medicine take very different approaches to the practice of medicine -- whether in prevention or disease treatment. And while, they may seem mutually exclusive, more and more clinicians are trying to understand how and when it may be best to integrate the two in order to prescribe the most effective, appropriate treatments for a patient.Combining data from Traditional Chinese

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Health is a complex system -- and understanding it requires a complex system too

Tomorrow, IBM Research will kick off a new multi-year Grand Challenge project. The challenge is to build a platform that integrates multiple scientific models to create meaningful connections among different domains -- such as agriculture, transportation, urban planning and much more -- to better understand the ecosystem of influences on health, the health of individuals and the health of

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IBM, Stanford Unveil Green Chemistry Breakthrough

Scientists from IBM and Stanford University have unveiled discoveries that could lead to the development of new types of biodegradable, biocompatible plastics. The result of a multi-year research effort, the breakthrough also could lead to a new recycling process that has the potential to significantly increase the ability to recycle and reuse common PET and plant-based plastics in the future.

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